Exploiting Multi-Antennas for Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, there are scenarios where the secondary (lower priority) users intend to communicate with each other by opportunistically utilizing the transmit spectrum originally allocated to the existing primary (higher priority) users. For such a scenario, a secondary user usually has to trade off between two conflicting goals at the same time: one is to maximize its own transmit throughput; and the other is to minimize the amount of interference it produces at each primary receiver. In this paper, we study this fundamental tradeoff from an information-theoretic perspective by characterizing the secondary user's channel capacity under both its own transmit-power constraint as well as a set of interference-power constraints each imposed at one of the primary receivers. In particular, this paper exploits multi-antennas at the secondary transmitter to effectively balance between spatial multiplexing for the secondary transmission and interference avoidance at the primary receivers. Convex optimization techniques are used to design algorithms for the optimal secondary transmit spatial spectrum that achieves the capacity of the secondary transmission. Suboptimal solutions for ease of implementation are also presented and their performances are compared with the optimal solution. Furthermore, algorithms developed for the single-channel transmission are also extended to the case of multi-channel transmission whereby the secondary user is able to achieve opportunistic spectrum sharing via transmit adaptations not only in space, but in time and frequency domains as well.Comment: Extension of IEEE PIMRC 2007. 35 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on Signal Processing and Networking for Dynamic Spectrum Acces

Interference Mitigation for Cognitive Radio MIMO Systems Based on Practical Precoding

In this paper, we propose two subspace-projection-based precoding schemes, namely, full-projection (FP)- and partial-projection (PP)-based precoding, for a cognitive radio multiple-input multiple-output (CR-MIMO) network to mitigate its interference to a primary time-division-duplexing (TDD) system. The proposed precoding schemes are capable of estimating interference channels between CR and primary networks, and incorporating the interference from the primary to the CR system into CR precoding via a novel sensing approach. Then, the CR performance and resulting interference of the proposed precoding schemes are analyzed and evaluated. By fully projecting the CR transmission onto a null space of the interference channels, the FP-based precoding scheme can effectively avoid interfering the primary system with boosted CR throughput. While, the PP-based scheme is able to further improve the CR throughput by partially projecting its transmission onto the null space.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications in April 201

Cooperative underlay cognitive radio assisted NOMA: secondary network improvement and outage performance

In this paper, a downlink scenario of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme with power constraint via spectrum sensing is considered. Such network provides improved outage performance and new scheme of NOMA-based cognitive radio (CR-NOMA) network are introduced. The different power allocation factors are examined subject to performance gap among these secondary NOMA users. To evaluate system performance, the exact outage probability expressions of secondary users are derived. Finally, the dissimilar performance problem in term of secondary users is illustrated via simulation, in which a power allocation scheme and the threshold rates are considered as main impacts of varying system performance. The simulation results show that the performance of CR-NOMA network can be improved significantly

Interference-Aware Resource Control in Multi-Antenna Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks with Heterogeneous Delay Constraints

In this work, we consider a multi-antenna cognitive ad hoc network (CAHNet) with heterogeneous delay requirements. To fulfill the interference and delay constraints simultaneously, we propose to perform adaptive zero-forcing beamforming (ZFBF) at cognitive transmitters according to interference channel state information (CSI). To assist the CAHNet to obtain the interference CSI, we use a win-win inter-network cooperation strategy, namely quantized interference CSI feedback from the primary network to CAHNet through a feedback link, under the condition that the CAHNet pays a proper price for it. Considering the scarcity of feedback and power resources, we focus on the minimization of the overall resource cost subject to both interference and delay constraints. To solve the problem, we derive a joint feedback and power control algorithm amongst multiple links of CAHNet. Finally, simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

Low-Cost Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamformer Evaluation in Spectrum Sharing Systems

This paper evaluates different analog-digital beamforming solutions for future spectrum sharing mm-wave scenarios. In contrast to sub-6 GHz multiantenna schemes where all-digital solutions provide an excellent performance-cost tradeoff, in the mm-wave bands where a very large number of antennas is required, all-digital designs cannot be deployed due to their cost and complexity. In order to solve this problem, subarray solutions are conceived such that a reduced number of radiofrequency chains are simultaneously connected to different antennas through an analog beamforming network formed by phase shifters (i.e. with no amplitude control). Different connectivity solutions are evaluated; namely, full-connected, localized and interleaved considering that either the phase shifters have full resolution or only one control bit. As reported in the paper, while for the full resolution case the same performance is obtained for all connectivity schemes, in case the phase shifters have one control bit, differences show up. The numerical evaluation is done with an alternating feasible point pursuit successive convex approximation (FPP-SCA) optimization which yields to efficient solutions even for this non-convex optimization problem

Cooperative Cognitive Relaying Under Primary and Secondary Quality of Service Satisfaction

This paper proposes a new cooperative protocol which involves cooperation between primary and secondary users. We consider a cognitive setting with one primary user and multiple secondary users. The time resource is partitioned into discrete time slots. Each time slot, a secondary user is scheduled for transmission according to time division multiple access, and the remainder of the secondary users, which we refer to as secondary relays, attempt to decode the primary packet. Afterwards, the secondary relays employ cooperative beamforming to forward the primary packet and to provide protection to the secondary destination of the secondary source scheduled for transmission from interference. We characterize the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of the primary source under the proposed protocol. We consider certain quality of service for each user specified by its required throughput. The optimization problem is stated under such condition. It is shown that the optimization problem is linear and can be readily solved. We show that the sum of the secondary required throughputs must be less than or equal to the probability of correct packets reception.Comment: This paper was accepted in PIMRC 201